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Three years ago I wrote a book, and I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. Oh boy, how wrong I was. The novel’s premise was solid, but I had to learn a lot about writing before I could make it shine. So I spent the next years learning about adverbs, show versus tell, passive voice, tenses, etc. But the hardest lesson to learn was how to handle constructive feedback.
Worse, I’m from Brazil and English is my second language. As a non-native speaker, prepositions like “in” and “on” were especially hard to learn.
But the work finally paid off. My debut novel “Challenges of the Gods” was published today by The Wild Rose Press.
Despite of what people may think, writing a book is far from being a lonely enterprise. A lot of people helped me, including my wife and kids, friends, co-workers, strangers from the internet, and professional editors. Because of their feedback, my characters have more depth, my chapters flow better, and, more importantly, I learned to have thick skin. Uh… most of the time, anyway.
AbsoluteWrite was an important part of this journey. Here I learned how to improve my craft, fine tune my querying, and learn about the business in general. Thanks to AW and all its members. This is a great place for writers to grow and learn.
Worse, I’m from Brazil and English is my second language. As a non-native speaker, prepositions like “in” and “on” were especially hard to learn.
But the work finally paid off. My debut novel “Challenges of the Gods” was published today by The Wild Rose Press.
Despite of what people may think, writing a book is far from being a lonely enterprise. A lot of people helped me, including my wife and kids, friends, co-workers, strangers from the internet, and professional editors. Because of their feedback, my characters have more depth, my chapters flow better, and, more importantly, I learned to have thick skin. Uh… most of the time, anyway.
AbsoluteWrite was an important part of this journey. Here I learned how to improve my craft, fine tune my querying, and learn about the business in general. Thanks to AW and all its members. This is a great place for writers to grow and learn.
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